>I mean, surely you don't accept that killing Jews can ever be considered moral, or owning slaves, or cutting genitalia of little girls is moral just because a local majority happens to think that it is moral.
What he or I believe don't matter at all.
If you were a southern, back in the slavery days, statistical chances are you would find it moral too.
>In this day and age, with having gone through the Enlightenment with have such an abundant literature on psychological sciences we can more or less reasonably agree on what is moral and not
The Germans that did those things during WWII not only have been through the englightenment but their country was one of the major contributors to it's whole development.
So, you'd be surprised.
>physical and emotional pain is bad -- we know these things intuitively, we learned it over thousands of years
Yes, and then they tell you "oh, but we only did it to save more lives". Or, "yes, it's bad, but we're doing it to the enemy".
Germany's Enlightenment was the most abstract and apolitical, compared to France or Britain, and exemplified by Kant, and tracts like "Critique of Pure Reason".
The majority of the figures of "Classical Liberalism" were from Britain. France also had political figures like Rousseau, but they tend to somewhat more Romanticism and less practicality.
Germany's tradition of antisemitism owed most to Martin Luther, who explicitly envisioned a genocide/enslavement of Jews in his "On The Jews and their Lies", a book beloved by Hitler.
What he or I believe don't matter at all.
If you were a southern, back in the slavery days, statistical chances are you would find it moral too.
>In this day and age, with having gone through the Enlightenment with have such an abundant literature on psychological sciences we can more or less reasonably agree on what is moral and not
The Germans that did those things during WWII not only have been through the englightenment but their country was one of the major contributors to it's whole development.
So, you'd be surprised.
>physical and emotional pain is bad -- we know these things intuitively, we learned it over thousands of years
Yes, and then they tell you "oh, but we only did it to save more lives". Or, "yes, it's bad, but we're doing it to the enemy".